2016-05-23 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – May 23, 2016 TL: \[Not speaking in mic \] You know, I mean, you know, I’m spending hours and hours and hours on this but sustainable public hunting is \[unclear\] and it’s not just sustainable public hunting, you know, to where you have, you know, four or five animals in an area that’s \[unclear\]. It’s, you know, where, I mean, we have – there is here that hunting is part of the economy. Oh, I’m sorry… \[Speaks in mic\] Hunting is part of the economy for many people, you know, part of their economy and, um, so sustainable public hunting is really, you know, part and parcel of what this, you know, commission is – the purpose and the goal of the commission into, um, and that term opportunity, um, I’m wondering if you couldn’t maybe use other words. Cause an eradication is an opportunity. NP: That’s right. TL: You know, and – Lisa was kind of clever on that one – in that way, but… JD: Well, and, um, if I may interject, we were – we actually did that - to follow your facetiousness – with the cattle hunt too… TL: Right. JD: We created an opportunity and it really did become an opportunity but it’s still an eradication – you’re correct. TL: Well that – I think everybody here – will applaud. JD: So we did make an opportunity. TL: Well, yeah. JD: I have to throw that one. TL: No, no – that was – and I think everybody here applauds what’s going on… JD: Yeah… TL: ….with the cattle hunt. JD: But, but recognizing that it is finite… TL: Right. JD: And we know that and that’s the sad part as far as hunting – that it will end, right. 8